[p2p-research] Creativity = madness?

[Maria Droujkova]

This, unexpectedly, articulated to me why I don't recommend most of Russian
literature to my kid. It tends to take people to other realms, darker ones
at that, and just dump them there without developing any filters - as the
authors themselves either never learned to cope constructively (Dostoyevsky)
or just followed the tradition of not providing filters to readers.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com

Make math your own, to make your own math.




On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi Andy,
>
> I have been convinced of this a long time ago, not sure if you know this
> but I lived for 18 months in a neoreichian community and did 6 more years of
> intensive body-mind work in my late twenties.
>
> However, there is a very crucial difference which may not be overlooked and
> makes genius and madness different, although one can turn into the other and
> vice versa,
>
> i.e. geniuses go through these different realms, but can make the
> difference between them, they come out of the dark night of the soul with
> shamanic mastery, on the other hand, mad people cannot distinguish between
> the different truth claims of the different realms, and for this reason
> become socially dysfunctional, while shamans and geniuses can 'travel back
> and fro', knowing where they are and where there are speaking from ..
>
> Michel
>
>
>
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